ReNet MoCoCAhttp://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa
The blog features up-to-date information on the research activities, profiles, publications, bibliographical resources and other materials of a growing international network of scholars – launched in May 2015 at Lisbon - who work in the field of modern and contemporary Chinese art. The moderated blog supports membership applications to the informal and cross-institutional network and ensures its internal as well as public communication and outreach.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:38:06 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4TheInternationalResearchNetworkForModernAndContemporaryChineseArthttps://feedburner.google.comPosition: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Asian Art History, University of Notre Dame, due: 5 July 2018http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/02/16/position-postdoctoral-fellowship-asian-art-history-university-notre-dame-due-5-july-2018/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/02/16/position-postdoctoral-fellowship-asian-art-history-university-notre-dame-due-5-july-2018/#respondFri, 16 Feb 2018 13:37:50 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=2111The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, in partnership with the Department of Art, Art History & Design, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the history of the art of China at the University of Notre Dame for AY 2018-19 with the possibility of renewal for AY 2019-20. Priority will be given to ...

The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, in partnership with the Department of Art, Art History & Design, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the history of the art of China at the University of Notre Dame for AY 2018-19 with the possibility of renewal for AY 2019-20. Priority will be given to candidates working in periods prior to the twentieth century. Applicants may not be more than five years beyond the receipt of the PhD at the start of the fellowship. ABD applicants considered. Fellows will teach one course in each of the two semesters, pursue her/his own research interests leading to publication, give one public lecture, and participate in the intellectual life of the Liu Institute and the College of Arts and Letters.

]]>http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/02/16/position-postdoctoral-fellowship-asian-art-history-university-notre-dame-due-5-july-2018/feed/0Job Offer: Dresden East Asian Porcellain Collection seeks research assistant for digitalization, due 8 March 2018http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/02/16/job-offer-dresden-east-asian-porcellain-collection-sees-temporary-research-assistant-digitalization-due-8-march-2018/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/02/16/job-offer-dresden-east-asian-porcellain-collection-sees-temporary-research-assistant-digitalization-due-8-march-2018/#respondFri, 16 Feb 2018 13:23:41 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=2081The East Asian Porcellain Collection of August the Strong in Dresden, Germany is to be digitalized. The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden seek a research assistant to support the project. Read the German job offer in what follows, applications are due 8 March 2018. Die Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) suchen im Rahmen des Drittmittelprojekts „Im Wettstreit mit ...

The East Asian Porcellain Collection of August the Strong in Dresden, Germany is to be digitalized. The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden seek a research assistant to support the project. Read the German job offer in what follows, applications are due 8 March 2018.

]]>http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/02/16/job-offer-dresden-east-asian-porcellain-collection-sees-temporary-research-assistant-digitalization-due-8-march-2018/feed/0ANN: 3-year PhD studentship “Spaces of Occupation in 20th Century Asia”, Univ. of Nottingham, UK, due 31 January 2018http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/30/ann-3-year-phd-studentship-spaces-occupation-20th-century-asia-univ-nottingham-uk-due-31-january-2018/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/30/ann-3-year-phd-studentship-spaces-occupation-20th-century-asia-univ-nottingham-uk-due-31-january-2018/#respondTue, 30 Jan 2018 09:52:48 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=2061This is a reminder about the COTCA Studentship in ‘Spaces of Occupation in 20th Century Asia’ which is currently open at the University of Nottingham. This studentship fits within COTCA’s Stream 3: ‘Spaces of Occupation in Twentieth-Century Asia’. The precise choice of research topic will lie with the student in consultation with supervisors, but it ...

This is a reminder about the COTCA Studentship in ‘Spaces of Occupation in 20th Century Asia’ which is currently open at the University of Nottingham.

This studentship fits within COTCA’s Stream 3: ‘Spaces of Occupation in Twentieth-Century Asia’. The precise choice of research topic will lie with the student in consultation with supervisors, but it must employ a ‘spatial history’ approach to analyse the impact of foreign occupation on cultural expression in 20th-century East and/or Southeast Asia. It might be a specific study of occupation in an individual society, or it might be comparative or regional in focus.

]]>http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/30/ann-3-year-phd-studentship-spaces-occupation-20th-century-asia-univ-nottingham-uk-due-31-january-2018/feed/0Ph.D.-position “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises…”, ERC funded project, art history, LMU Munich, Germanyhttp://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/24/ph-d-position-relocating-modernism-global-metropolises-erc-funded-project-art-history-lmu-munich-germany/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/24/ph-d-position-relocating-modernism-global-metropolises-erc-funded-project-art-history-lmu-munich-germany/#respondWed, 24 Jan 2018 20:53:48 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=2041The LMU Munich, Germany, has announced the position of a Research Associate/Doctoral Student in the domain of History of Modern Art at the Institute of Art History for a period of 3 years (13 TV-L, 65%) in connection with the ERC funded project “METROMOD, Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile”. Submission deadline is ...

The LMU Munich, Germany, has announced the position of a Research Associate/Doctoral Student in the domain of History of Modern Art at the Institute of Art History for a period of 3 years (13 TV-L, 65%) in connection with the ERC funded project “METROMOD, Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile”. Submission deadline is 10 February 2018.

Job Description

Applications are sought for a doctoral student on the European Research Council funded project “METROMOD: Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” led by Professor Dr. Burcu Dogramaci and based at the LMU Institute for Art History. Applications from the disciplines of art history, architectural history, urban history, planning history or related research fields are welcome. We are offering a three-year PhD position starting in May 2018 at the earliest.

The Project

Breaking new ground, METROMOD proposes a rewriting of modern art history as a history of global interconnections, spurred by migration movements and rooted in cities. Revising the historiography of modern art, which still continues to be dominated by the hegemonic and normative narratives of (Western) European Modernism and ignores the significance of exile movements, METROMOD conceptualizes art history as a result of interrelations and negotiations in global contact zones, unstable flows, transformations and crises. The conceptual triangle of modernism, migration and the metropolis forms the foundation of an innovative comparative, interdisciplinary methodology. In its analysis, METROMOD focuses on the first half of the 20th century. During this era the modern movement emerged as a paradigm in art and architecture, and rapid urbanization took place globally; thousands of persecuted European modern artists fled their homes, re-establishing their practices in metropolises across the world. Reflecting both the geographical extent of these exile movements and their local urban impact METROMOD examines 6 key migrant destinations—the global cities of Buenos Aires, New York, London, Istanbul, Mumbai (before Bombay) und Shanghai—following three main objectives: 1. to explore transformations in urban topographies, identifying artistic contact zones and places of transcultural art production; 2. to investigate networks of exiled and local artists as well as collaborative projects and exhibitions; and 3. to analyse art publications and discourse generated in centres of exile. Digital mapping will locate sites of artistic migration in the cities and demonstrate linkages between transforming metropolises and flows of people and objects around the world.

Prerequisites

You have successfully completed a master’s degree in art history, architectural history, urban history or planning history or related disciplines. You have a background in the history of modern art, photography, architecture or urbanism. You have a special interest in exile studies and history, and you have special language abilities in Mandarin. You will be fluent in English and have a working knowledge of German. You will be expected to pursue independent work related to the themes of METROMOD focusing on the objectives of the project (see description above). You will conduct a PhD project about the exiled/migrated artist community (1900-1950), art institutions, artworks and the urban landscape of Shanghai.

The successful candidate is expected to work as part of a team based at the LMU Munich and to conduct fieldwork and/or archive visits for the case studies. You are expected to publish the results of your research within the publication program of the project. You will be expected to be involved in planning and running collaborative project group activities (project meetings, workshops and conferences) as well as in the administrative work associated with the project. Experience and interest in archival research and/or the implementation of digital mapping tools connected with the project is desirable.

Working space, working tools and a travel budget will be provided. Applications from disabled researchers will be considered with priority under equal conditions. We welcome applications from female candidates. This is a 65% position.

How to apply

Please send the following application materials as a single PDF-document to rachel.lee@lmu.de (please specify METROMOD in your email subject line):
1. Short cover letter (max. 300 words)
2. Short CV (max. 2 pages) plus list of publications
3. A description of your proposed research topic relating to the stated objectives of the METROMOD project (max. 1000 words, excluding bibliography)
4. A writing sample (e.g. one chapter of your master’s thesis or an article). The writing sample should reflect your current research interests. It should preferably be no longer than 5000 words
5. Names and contact details of at least two referees.

Applications received by 10 February 2018 will receive full consideration. Review of the applications will continue until suitable candidates are found. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews on 20th of February 2018. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Rachel Lee.
Contact Person:
Dr. Rachel Lee
METROMOD, Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (ERC)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Zentnerstraße 31
80798 München
E-Mail: rachel.lee@lmu.de

The Forum East Asian Art History is an annual meeting of junior faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral students in the field of East Asian art history or related fields. Since East Asian Art History as an academic discipline in the German-speaking area is institutionally placed between East Asian Studies and an Art History focusing on Europe and America, the Forum aims at providing our field with an independent platform.

The 7th Forum will serve as a venue for presentations on individual research projects and for the discussion of methodological and institutional perspectives in the field. We encourage proposals for reports on ongoing research projects and graduate theses. Papers with a focus on art objects, collections or art historical periods that have been neglected by research so far are particularly welcome. We also invite proposals for themed panels with three to four speakers. The program will additionally include a section with reports from the institutes.

The organizers at the University of Vienna are pleased to host the Forum for the first time in Vienna.
To apply for a twenty-minute presentation, please send an abstract of 300 words and a short CV (max. 1 page) to Alexandra Wedekind (alexandra.wedekind@univie.ac.at). Panel proposals should include abstracts for the panel and for each paper. Deadline for submissions is the 20th of February, 2017. The Forum will be held in German and English.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide financial assistance for traveling costs.
We therefore ask participants to secure travel funding from other sources.

]]>http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/08/cfp-7th-forum-east-asian-art-history-vienna-1st-2nd-june-2018-due-20-february-2018/feed/06 PhD-Scholarships for Transcultural Studies with focus Asia/Europe at Heidelberg University – due 15 March, 2018http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/05/6-phd-scholarships-transcultural-studies-focus-asia-europe-heidelberg-university-due-15-march-2018/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/05/6-phd-scholarships-transcultural-studies-focus-asia-europe-heidelberg-university-due-15-march-2018/#respondFri, 05 Jan 2018 19:40:33 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=1951Dear ReNetMoMoCA members, the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University welcomes applications for up to six doctoral scholarships beginning in the winter semester 2018/19. In accordance with the research scheme of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, the three-year graduate programme focuses on the dynamics ...

the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University welcomes applications for up to six doctoral scholarships beginning in the winter semester 2018/19.

In accordance with the research scheme of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, the three-year graduate programme focuses on the dynamics of cultural exchange processes between and within Asia and Europe, and challenges established notions of national, ethnic, and disciplinary categories. The GPTS offers an excellent, highly interdisciplinary and international research environment combining the German model of individualized doctoral studies with a system of guided courses. The scholarships amount to 1.200 EUR per month over a period of 36 months.

Applicants are expected to propose a doctoral project with a strong affiliation to the research framework of the GPTS. They must hold an M.A. or equivalent in a discipline of the humanities or social sciences with an above-average grade and provide proof of advanced language skills in English.

Applications, including a CV, a letter of intention, a project proposal, a schedule for the dissertation, and two letters of recommendation are submitted through an online application system.

The Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) is a central research institute of Heidelberg University founded in April 2013. It builds on the structures that have been established by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality” in its two funding periods (2007-12, 2012-17).

]]>http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2018/01/05/6-phd-scholarships-transcultural-studies-focus-asia-europe-heidelberg-university-due-15-march-2018/feed/0Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor for History of Asian Art (Tenure Track), Uni. of Colorado, Boulder, Coloradohttp://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2017/10/05/job-opportunity-assistant-professor-history-asian-art-tenure-track-uni-colorado-boulder-colorado/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2017/10/05/job-opportunity-assistant-professor-history-asian-art-tenure-track-uni-colorado-boulder-colorado/#respondThu, 05 Oct 2017 19:03:11 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=1921The Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of Asian Art, to begin August 2018. Open to any Asian specialization from any historical period, including contemporary. Teach undergraduate and graduate level courses (two courses per semester), conduct an active research program, and ...

The Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of Asian Art, to begin August 2018. Open to any Asian specialization from any historical period, including contemporary. Teach undergraduate and graduate level courses (two courses per semester), conduct an active research program, and provide service to the department.

The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at hr-ada@colorado.edu.

The University of Colorado is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment and excellent benefits. Learn more about the University of Colorado by visiting https://www.cu.edu/cu-careers.

]]>http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2017/10/05/job-opportunity-assistant-professor-history-asian-art-tenure-track-uni-colorado-boulder-colorado/feed/0ANN: Member Publication – Jane Chin Davidson: “Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum”, ed. volume, Routledge 2017http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2017/09/07/ann-member-publication-jane-chin-davidson-published-ed-volume-global-world-art-practice-university-museum-routledge-2017/
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2017/09/07/ann-member-publication-jane-chin-davidson-published-ed-volume-global-world-art-practice-university-museum-routledge-2017/#respondThu, 07 Sep 2017 13:28:16 +0000http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/?p=1871ReNetMoCoCA member Jane Chin Davidson has just released the book “Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum” at Routledge Publishers which provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to university museums. Taking The Fowler Museum at UCLA, USA, as its central subject, this edited collection ...

ReNetMoCoCA member Jane Chin Davidson has just released the book “Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum” at Routledge Publishers which provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to university museums.

Taking The Fowler Museum at UCLA, USA, as its central subject, this edited collection traces how university museum practices have expanded the understanding of the ‘art object’ in recent years. It is argued that the meaning of cultural objects infused with the heritage and identity of ‘global culture’ has been developed substantially through the innovative approaches of university scholars, museum curators, and administrators since the latter part of the twentieth century. Through exploring the ways in which universities and their museums have overseen changes in the global context for art, this edited collection initiates a larger dialogue and inquiry into the value and contribution of the empirical model.

The volume includes a full-colour photo essay by Marla C. Berns on the Fowler Museum’s ‘Fowler at Fifty’ project, as well as contributions from Donald Preziosi, Catherine M. Cole, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Claire Farago, Selma Holo, and Gemma Rodrigues. It is important reading for professionals, scholars and advanced students alike.

The study combines a transcultural perspective with conceptual tools from art history, media and cultural studies to query how both, art works from China as well as images of China, are constituted through the dispositif of the exhibition. The author diachronically examines 20 major exhibitions in relation to artistic developments in China, while furnishing a synchronic view of agents (with a focus on curators, critics, and collectors), institutions (various types of art museums, bi-/triennials, and bi-national exhibitions), and discourses involved in shaping a new canon.

The appendix of the illustrated volume includes short descriptions of more than 100 group exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art that were on display in Europe, North-America, Australia and other parts of the world between 1982 and 2014, around 50 short biographies of involved curators, critics, and collectors and nine short descriptions of significant private collections. The data presents a selection of the larger content of the relational databank Group Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Art (GECCA) that was compiled by the author and is also partially visualized in the google earth based representation GECCAmapped (see here) which was conceived in collaboration with the Heidelberg Research Architecture, HRA.

Franziska Koch’s dissertation was co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Hubert Locher (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University). The study was supported by a scholarship of the DFG Graduate Research School “Image – Body – Medi. An Anthropological Perspective” at School of New Media Karlsruhe (2006-2009). The project also benefitted from her work as co-coordinator of “Multi-centred Modernisms” (D13, 2009/10) and core member of “Arts and the Transcultural” (Net1, 2013-2015). The printing of the book was partially funded by the DFG (German Science Foundation) in connection with the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” of Heidelberg University and by the Baden-Württembergische China-Gesellschaft e.V.

ReNetMoCoCA members Jane Chin Davidson and Nicola Foster will chair the panel “Re-Staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Future?” at the 106th College Art Association Annual Conference taking place from 21 to 24 February 2018 in Los Angeles.

The turn of the twenty-first century is witnessing a growing number of exhibitions which explicitly claim to repeat and/or re-stage earlier exhibitions; for example, the 1989 China Avant-Garde (restaged in Berlin 1993); the 1937 Degenerate Art (re-staged LA in 1991 and NY in 2014), and many others that are less politically visible, including historical (medievalist) retrospectives. In re-staging exhibitions curators acknowledge earlier curatorial practices in order to adopt a critical approach for examining how these exhibitions re-construct, re-write and re-present the past. The methodological model was established by Amelia Jones’s study of re-enacted performance-art exhibitions in her book Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History (2012), showing how reinterpretation of the past is always productive for both the present and the future. Hans Ulrich Obrist insists that “there is an entire history of unrealised art institutions, which in their dormant state have the potential to inform what an institution of the twenty-first century could be.” His use of Edouard Glissant’s theory of the museum as mondialite (globality) argues that history could be seen through the model of ‘creolisation’– the past is not only the already-narrated, but also that which has been lost/ignored in existing accounts. This session invites explorations into curatorial practices which acknowledge earlier exhibitions and therefore seek to repeat and reinterpret the past – we question how the re-staging of earlier exhibitions in different geopolitical spaces might highlight curatorial practices that were once perceived as peripheral due to cultural/political differences and to changing historical/political narratives.